Radian Records Blog

The debut release from Sonia Montez is now available through our webstore.  Worldwide distribution via The Orchard is coming soon to a portal near you.

Mark Behme’s Art guitars, now showing at Neptune Gallery.

Artist’s note:  ”While my current flights-of-fancy tend to veer off into a comic gravitas, I repeat my intentions to incorporate the viewer in an interactive process. These works extend my oeuvre, “Toys of Chance”, in which interactivity invites discovery of hidden elements and puzzles. Things which may not completely be what they seem to be. Color, in hard enamel, plays a large role, applied to carved wood.

Playful aspects take on a more functional role with a new collection of themed guitars. This is a natural progression for me because of the logistical and engineered requirements for building musical instruments; and my interest in pop music genres.

This new collection continues my interest in surrealism and symbolism utilizing the figure to make new allegories expressing mood, emotion, attitude, and a contemporary outlook on man’s relation to himself and others.”

http://www.markbehme.com/

http://7doorsedan.com/

Sonia Montez will be playing Blaggards Pub in NYC on Saturday, Jan 10th at 8pm

Check out these two reviews…click the links to read the full text.

“By combining his Louisiana upbringing with his current New York City residency, Alex Chappo has formed the sound of Chappo on its debut album, Media Machine The skeleton of the album has a very clean, rock feel to it, but it’s the addition of funk and hip-hop to that sound that makes it go….”  offbeat.com

“Baton Rouge native Alex Chappo, now residing in New York, is the latest sonic polymath to emerge from our fertile soil….” 225batonrouge.com

Stop by www.chappomusic.com to catch up with Chappo and get the music.

Chappo’s Media Machine was produced by Andrew Felluss, and recorded at 58N6 Media Labs

“Freddie Hubbard, Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 70

by PETER KEEPNEWS

Freddie Hubbard, a jazz trumpeter who dazzled audiences and critics alike with his virtuosity, his melodicism and his infectious energy, died on Monday in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 70 and lived in Sherman Oaks.”

…read more on the NYtimes.com website

This is one of my all time favorite records, and apparently, it is out of print.  I will try to find out who we can write to and request a reissue… In the meantime, someone posted it on Imeem

..and Pat says check out “Red Clay”

Sonia Montez will be performing alongside other talents at art culture online magazine, Too Shy To Stop’s New Year’s Eve/web site launch party at STAIN Bar in Williambsurg Brooklyn, dubbed Too Shy Oh Nine. RSVP for free entry to the party. There will be door prizes and happy hour drink specials all night. TSTS also wrote a nice feature on Sonia which can be found here.

Thanks to everyone at the Deli for your continued support.

Uncle Mike’s
December 18, 2008 8:45 pm
57 Murray Street
212-791-9676
(btw. Church St. & West Broadway)
http://www.myspace.com/unclemikestribeca

Playing her 2nd acoustic set at Philadelphia’s Theatre of the Living Arts, Sonia opened up for The Mountain Goats. Thanks once again to Ourstage.com for inviting Sonia to perform.

www.soniamontez.com